Periodic interviews focused on goodness and leadership
ChoinqueCast
Claim This Podcastby Jim Emerick
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Periodic interviews focused on goodness and leadership
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August 18, 2026
Can First-Time Leaders Gain Credibility through Mentorship? with Noel Massie
<p>In this episode of ChoinqueCast, host <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jim Emerick</a></u> sits down with <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelmassie/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Noel Massie</a></u>, Author of <strong>Congrats! You've Been Promoted</strong> and Former Vice President of U.S. Delivery Operations at <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/ups/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UPS</a></u>, about what newly promoted frontline leaders need to succeed. The episode covers value-based leadership, conflict resolution, supply chain complexity, mentorship, professionalism, and how listeners can build confidence in the first years of a leadership role.</p><p></p><p>Noel began at UPS as a 19-year-old part-time employee while studying electrical engineering and advanced through management, business unit president roles, and national delivery operations leadership. His experience leading large teams through daily operational challenges shaped his focus on integrity, fairness, trust, safety, and practical coaching for supervisors stepping into responsibility for the first time.</p><p></p><p><strong>Expect to Learn:</strong></p><ul><li>How value-based leadership uses integrity, ethics, fairness, trust, and listening to guide new supervisors.</li><li>Why early leadership development and role-play can prepare frontline leaders for difficult employee conversations.</li><li>The way supply chain operations depend on human judgment, leadership, and complex coordination beyond delivery vehicles.</li><li>How mentors shape leadership behavior by modeling respect, accountability, and practical decision-making.</li><li>Why culture must be executed by managers and supervisors at the bottom of an organization, not only stated at the top.</li><li>The professional responsibility leaders carry because they are always being evaluated by the people they lead.</li></ul><br/><p></p><p><strong>Episode Breakdown with Timestamps:</strong></p><ul><li>[00:00] – Teaser</li><li>[01:07] – Jim introduces Noel Massie and his new book</li><li>[07:36] – Value-based leadership and tactical tools for new supervisors</li><li>[10:54] – Why supply chain complexity is larger than brown trucks</li><li>[16:44] – Common challenges newly promoted leaders face</li><li>[27:25] – Mentorship, UPS culture, and early leadership lessons</li><li>[34:45] – Professionalism and visibility in modern leadership</li><li>[45:54] – Where to find Congrats! You've Been Promoted and contact Noel Massie</li></ul><br/><p></p><p>Disclosure: Portions of this episode (such as the introduction or promotional segments) use AI-generated voice narration produced under human editorial review. </p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Connect with the Guest, Noel Massie:</strong></p><p>👉<strong> </strong>LinkedIn: <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelmassie/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelmassie/</a></u></p><p>👉 Website: <u><a href="https://noelmassie.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://noelmassie.com/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Link to the book, Congrats! You’ve Been Promoted:</strong></p><p>👉 Link to order his book: <u><a href="https://noelmassie.com/book-order-page/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://noelmassie.com/book-order-page/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Connect with the Host, Jim Emerick:</strong></p><p>👉 LinkedIn: <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>More from Choinque:</strong></p><p>👉 Website: <u><a href="https://www.choinque.com/blog" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.choinque.com/blog</a></u></p><p>👉 Facebook: <u><a href="https://facebook.com/918903204639744" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/918903204639744</a></u></p><p>👉 Instagram: <u><a href="https://instagram.com/choinquecast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/choinquecast</a></u></p><p>👉 TikTok: <u><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@choinque" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@choinque</a></u></p><p>👉 X: <u><a href="https://x.com/choinque" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/choinque</a></u></p><p>👉 Email: <u><a href="mailto:iamgood@choinque.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">iamgood@choinque.com</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>More about Leadership Courses: </strong></p><p>👉 Schedule: <u><a href="https://www.academyleadership.com/Emerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.academyleadership.com/Emerick/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Follow the Podcasts:</strong></p><p>👉 Apple Podcasts: <u><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/choinquecast/id1290927745" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/choinquecast/id1290927745</a></u></p><p>👉 Spotify: <u><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/56oY3glVaoTXmmcWWGQGry?si=69f1cd525a5d4be5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/56oY3glVaoTXmmcWWGQGry?si=69f1cd525a5d4be5</a></u></p><p>👉 YouTube: <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA4czS4aI7V5g3i2Sd4bUQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA4czS4aI7V5g3i2Sd4bUQ</a></u></p>
August 11, 2026
Why Teams Fear Failure for Leaders to Build Strong Cultures with Rachel Franco
<p>In this episode of ChoinqueCast, host <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jim Emerick</a></u> sits down with <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rachel Franco</a></u>, <strong>Founder & Principal</strong> of <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/fail-smarter/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fail Smarter LLC</a></u>, about how leaders and teams can learn from failure without letting fear or blame block innovation. The conversation covers risk aversion, short-term performance pressure, psychological safety, types of failure, and practical ways leaders can create conditions where people speak up, test ideas, and turn setbacks into better outcomes.</p><p></p><p>Rachel brings experience across marketing communications, content, organizational change, and innovation enablement, including work at Deloitte, Change Healthcare, Optum (UnitedHealth Group), and Grey Advertising. Her graduate work at Northwestern focused on the barriers leaders face when learning from failure, and that background shapes her perspective on helping organizations distinguish avoidable mistakes from intelligent experimentation.</p><p></p><p><strong>Expect to Learn</strong></p><ul><li>How to distinguish basic, complex, and intelligent failure so teams respond with the right level of accountability and learning.</li><li>Why psychological safety helps teams surface concerns, mistakes, and failures while problems are still small enough to address.</li><li>How short-term performance pressure and risk aversion can prevent innovation programs from turning ideas into action.</li><li>The leadership behaviors that encourage people to share vulnerabilities, feedback, bad news, and unconventional ideas.</li><li>Why leaders must examine their own role in team problems before expecting meaningful culture change from others.</li><li>How measuring psychological safety and creating a process for failure review can help teams learn from and leverage setbacks.</li></ul><br/><p></p><h2><strong>Episode Breakdown with Timestamps</strong></h2><ul><li>[00:00] – Teaser</li><li>[01:09] – Welcome & Introduction to the ChoinqueCast with Rachel Franco</li><li>[04:51] – The Innovator's Dilemma and Risk Aversion</li><li>[09:03] – Short-Term Focus vs. Innovation: The Quarterly Results Trap</li><li>[15:31] – Intelligent Failure: The Edison and SpaceX Model</li><li>[21:03] – The Key to Success: Look Within and Be Willing to Change</li><li>[25:46] – Why Even "Failure-Friendly" Companies Struggle to Cascade Culture</li><li>[30:23] – Free Resources: The FIQ Quiz</li><li>[32:33] – Closing Remarks and How to Connect </li></ul><br/><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Connect with the Guest, Rachel Franco:</strong></p><p>👉<strong> </strong>LinkedIn: <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/</a></u></p><p>👉 Company LinkedIn: <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/fail-smarter/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/fail-smarter/</a></u></p><p>👉 Company Website: <u><a href="https://www.fail-smarter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fail-smarter.com/</a></u></p><p>👉 Jan’s Book: <u><a href="https://jansbooks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jansbooks.com/</a></u></p><p>👉Book Link: <u><a href="https://turningsmalltalkintobigtalk.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://turningsmalltalkintobigtalk.com/</a></u> </p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>To Discover your Team's FIQ (Failure Intelligence Quotient): How well they Learn from and Leverage Failure: </strong></p><p>👉 Take the Quiz at: <u><a href="https://www.fail-smarter.com/quiz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fail-smarter.com/quiz</a></u> </p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Connect with the Host, Jim Emerick:</strong></p><p>👉 LinkedIn: <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>More from Choinque:</strong></p><p>👉 Website: <u><a href="https://www.choinque.com/blog" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.choinque.com/blog</a></u></p><p>👉 Facebook: <u><a href="https://facebook.com/918903204639744" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/918903204639744</a></u></p><p>👉 Instagram: <u><a href="https://instagram.com/choinquecast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/choinquecast</a></u></p><p>👉 TikTok: <u><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@choinque" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@choinque</a></u></p><p>👉 X: <u><a href="https://x.com/choinque" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/choinque</a></u></p><p>👉 Email: <u><a href="mailto:iamgood@choinque.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">iamgood@choinque.com</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>More about Leadership Courses: </strong></p><p>👉 Schedule: <u><a href="https://www.academyleadership.com/Emerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.academyleadership.com/Emerick/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Follow the Podcasts:</strong></p><p>👉 Apple Podcasts: <u><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/choinquecast/id1290927745" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/choinquecast/id1290927745</a></u></p><p>👉 Spotify: <u><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/56oY3glVaoTXmmcWWGQGry?si=69f1cd525a5d4be5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/56oY3glVaoTXmmcWWGQGry?si=69f1cd525a5d4be5</a></u></p><p>👉 YouTube: <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA4czS4aI7V5g3i2Sd4bUQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA4czS4aI7V5g3i2Sd4bUQ</a></u></p>
August 4, 2026
The Employee Engagement for Leaders to Fix Disengagement using Storytelling with Carlo D’Amore
<p>In this episode of ChoinqueCast, host <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jim Emerick</a></u> sits down with <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlodamore-creator/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carlo D'Amore</a></u>, an actor and the <strong>Founder of <u><a href="https://www.liveintheater.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Live in Theater</a></u></strong>, about using participatory storytelling to build engagement at work. The conversation covers immersive murder mysteries, authentic performance, corporate team building, play, emotional connection, and how shared stories can help colleagues interact beyond normal workplace roles.</p><p></p><p>Carlo brings the perspective of a lifelong storyteller whose path moved from Lima, Peru, to California, San Francisco theatre, New York stages, teaching artistry, and historical walking-tour performance. His experience creating <strong>The Ryan Case</strong> and adapting Live in Theater for virtual corporate groups shapes his view that teams engage more deeply when they co-create, laugh together, and participate in a story that feels real.</p><p></p><p><strong>Expect to Learn:</strong></p><ul><li>How immersive mystery theatre can turn passive employees into active participants by asking them to question characters, solve puzzles, and co-create the story.</li><li>Why authenticity drives engagement more effectively than farce, forced activities, or surface-level team building.</li><li>The role of play in helping adults reconnect with curiosity, imagination, experimentation, and a willingness to try new behaviors.</li><li>How shared laughter and emotional reactions create stronger bonds than routine workplace compliance alone.</li><li>Why storytelling gives teams a practical way to interact as people first, not only as job titles or hierarchy levels.</li><li>The importance of creating a safe, structured environment where skeptical participants can gradually choose to engage.</li></ul><br/><p></p><p><strong>Episode Breakdown with Timestamps:</strong></p><ul><li>[00:00] – Teaser</li><li>[01:14] – Welcome & Introduction to the ChoinqueCast with Carlo D'Amore</li><li>[06:23] – Discovering Theatre: The Teacher Who Saw a Storyteller</li><li>[11:38] – The Entrepreneurial Spark: Why Acting Wasn't Enough</li><li>[16:05] – Thomas F. Burns and "Criminals in America"</li><li>[23:38] – The New York Times Review and a Surreal Homeless Man Encounter</li><li>[30:09] – The Secret Sauce: Playing the Reality, Not Farce</li><li>[37:06] – The Power of Play: Engaging the Disengaged</li><li>[43:38] – Authenticity as the Driver of Engagement</li><li>[48:08] – Rekindling Curiosity and the Childlike Sense of Play</li><li>[50:08] – A Google Story: The First Time a Whole Department Laughed Together</li><li>[54:08] – Why Stories and Mysteries Work Better Than Compliance</li><li>[58:08] – Closing Remarks</li></ul><br/><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Connect with the Guest, Carlo D'Amore:</strong></p><p>👉<strong> </strong>LinkedIn: <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlodamore-creator/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlodamore-creator/</a></u></p><p>👉 Company’s Website: <u><a href="https://www.liveintheater.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.liveintheater.com/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Connect with the Host, Jim Emerick:</strong></p><p>👉 LinkedIn: <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimemerick/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>More from Choinque:</strong></p><p>👉 Website: <u><a href="https://www.choinque.com/blog" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.choinque.com/blog</a></u></p><p>👉 Facebook: <u><a href="https://facebook.com/918903204639744" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/918903204639744</a></u></p><p>👉 Instagram: <u><a href="https://instagram.com/choinquecast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/choinquecast</a></u></p><p>👉 TikTok: <u><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@choinque" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@choinque</a></u></p><p>👉 X: <u><a href="https://x.com/choinque" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/choinque</a></u></p><p>👉 Email: <u><a href="mailto:iamgood@choinque.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">iamgood@choinque.com</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>More about Leadership Courses: </strong></p><p>👉 Schedule: <u><a href="https://www.academyleadership.com/Emerick/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.academyleadership.com/Emerick/</a></u></p><p></p><p>🔗 <strong>Follow the Podcasts:</strong></p><p>👉 Apple Podcasts: <u><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/choinquecast/id1290927745" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/choinquecast/id1290927745</a></u></p><p>👉 Spotify: <u><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/56oY3glVaoTXmmcWWGQGry?si=69f1cd525a5d4be5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/56oY3glVaoTXmmcWWGQGry?si=69f1cd525a5d4be5</a></u></p><p>👉 YouTube: <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA4czS4aI7V5g3i2Sd4bUQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA4czS4aI7V5g3i2Sd4bUQ</a></u></p>
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